White nationalists, neo-Nazis, anti-Muslims and Klansmen are among the extremists who have established new chapters of hate groups in Tennessee over the last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In a state that saw multiple white nationalist events in 2017, including a contentious "White Lives Matter rally" in October, a number of new SPLC-classified hate groups took root, according to the Montgomery-based nonprofit.

While the organization's new count of 37 active hate groups in Tennessee is one fewer than on the list released last year, far-right extremist activity in the Volunteer State hasn't showed signs of tapering off.

"Tennessee is a place that’s been a gathering for Stormfront, for American Renaissance, so there's a connection to the hate movement there that’s sort of unique, actually," said Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project.

Among the groups that have established a presence in Tennessee in the last year is the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Worker Party, which was at the center of both the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., and the White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville last year.

Antifa members march to the White Lives Matter rally as Keith Fuller, 49, from Murfreesboro walks beside them draped in a rebel flag to on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Members of the Rutherford County SheriffÕs Department are in riot gear as they are on stand-by during the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Damien Simpson waves to the counter protesters as he enters the inner ring for the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Simpson said he is not a white supremacist but came down with his wife and 6 children so they could see history and allow them to make up their own minds. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Keith Fuller, 49, of Murfreesboro, is wrapped in a rebel flag as David Lee Oliphant, 37, of Portland yells across a police line to the counterprotesters during the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Helen Comer / DNJ

Keith Fuller,49, of Murfreesboro is ecorted by police out of a counterprotest rally to the other side where a “White Lives Matter" rally was happening in downtown Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Shelley Mays/The Tennessean

Dionne Rogers (center), and Pratik Dash, a campaign organizer with the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, discuss plans after caravans of white nationalists did not end up showing up en masse on Saturday. Joel Ebert/USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee

Damien Simpson waves to the counterprotesters as he enters the inner part of the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Simpson said he is not a white supremacist but came down with his wife and six children so they could see history and allow them to make up their own minds. Helen Comer / DNJ

A man wearing a Confederate flag went through the counterprotest gate and is being escorted by police to the White Lives Matter protest in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean

Paul Davis, 31, from McMinnville, talks about his beliefs at the base of the Confederate soldier monument on the Square during the White Lives Matter rally in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Sean Cook, a pastor at Key Stewart Methodist Church in Gallatin, shouts, "Refugees are welcome here," as he marches along with hundreds of other counterprotesters in Murfreesboro on Oct. 28, 2017. Erica Brechtelsbauer / The Leaf Chronicle

Chris Warren, a planning committee member for Murfreesboro Loves and a pastor at Fort Cumberland Presbyterian Church, directs the group of counterprotesters along Church Street in Murfreesboro on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Erica Brechtelsbauer / The Leaf Chronicle

David White, from Murray County, raises an American flag as he marches alongside hundreds of other counterprotesters in Murfreesboro on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Erica Brechtelsbauer / The Leaf Chronicle

Mitchell Casto, 22, of Murfreesboro holds, “veterans against racism,” sign at the southeast corner of Church and Sevier streets where counter protesters gathered in advance of White Lives Matter event. “I’m out here today to make a stand against all the hateful rhetoric the white supremacists have come to spread in a town where we embrace diversity,” Casto said. Scott Broden / DNJ.com

Antifa members are stopped at the Church Street entrance and told that they must enter the rally on the South side of the square by Murfreesboro Police Sgt. Craig Snider as the group marches to the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

David Tillery from Tuscaloosa, Ala., walks away from the checkpoint frustrated because he’s not allowed to bring his cane into the protest in Shelbyville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean

David Lee Oliphant, 37, of Portland, left, listens to the counter protesters across a police line as Chris, no last name spoke to him before both men left the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Police gather at a gas station near the site of the planned White Lives Matter rally and counter protest before the start of the protest in Shelbyville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean

People walk around the square at the corner of East Main and Spring Street and take pictures as officials get ready for the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. Helen Comer / DNJ

A Rutherford County Sheriff's Deputy watches as Antifa members are redirected to the south side of the square to enter the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Members of the media wait at the base of the Confederate soldier monument as they wait for the protesters to arrive at the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

A law enforcement officer talks with David Lee Oliphant, 37, of Portland and tries to calm him down after Oliphant is excited by the counter protesters during the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

A member of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s department works the line between protesters and counter protesters during the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Law enforcement blocks the path and tell the Antifa members that they must uncover their faces before entering the White Lives Matter rally on the square in Murfreesboro, on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. HELEN COMER/DNJ

Though the SPLC reports the total number of active Ku Klux Klan chapters fell nationwide as a new generation of white supremacists have rejected robes and hoods in favor of the more loosely organized so-called "alt-right" movement of white nationalism, three new KKK groups have now cropped up in Tennessee.

Beirich also said three "neo-Volkisch" groups are operating in the state, a new category the nonprofit created this year to track "pagan fight clubs" that also advocate for the creation of a white ethnostate.

Those groups include The Gallowglasses Fight Club in East Tennessee's Tri-Cities area, The Varangians Fight Club in Knoxville and statewide Wolves of Vinland.

Two new groups have been added to the list of black nationalist organizations: Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge in Nashville and Great Millstone in Memphis.

To its anti-Muslim category, the SPLC added Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a Franklin-based Christian group, as well as the Tennessee Eagle Forum, a conservative Christian policy organization based in Nashville.

Neo-Confederate groups, including new chapters of the League of the South, one of the organizers of the Shelbyville rally, have also remained active in Tennessee, according to the SPLC.

The SPLC reports that no anti-LGBT groups are operating in Tennessee.

Beirich said that Tennessee serving as a venue for multiple annual hate group conferences has likely played a role in attracting new activity by "essentially asking white nationalists to come from all over the country and check Tennessee out."

"I know its not what Tennesseans want as advertising for their state, but unfortunately, that’s what's happening," Beirich said.

Here are the SPLC-classified hate groups the organization found to be active in Tennessee in 2017:

Ku Klux Klan

SPLC definition: "The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups. Although black Americans have typically been the Klan's primary target, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and, until recently, Catholics."

American Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Exalted Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Bristol)

Ku Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Knoxville)

Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Tennessee)

United Klans of America (McMinnville)

Neo-Nazi

SPLC definition: "These groups share a hatred for Jews and an admiration for Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. While they also hate other minorities, homosexuals and even sometimes Christians, they perceive “the Jew” as their cardinal enemy and trace social problems to a Jewish conspiracy that supposedly controls governments, financial institutions and the media."

Aryan Nations Sadistic Souls MC

National Alliance (Headquarters, Laurel Boomery)

Traditionalist Worker Party

Jodie Rosenblum, from Nashville, holds a sign reading "Never Again!" as she marches with hundreds of other counterprotesters in Murfreesboro on Oct. 28, 2017.(Photo: Erica Brechtelsbauer / The Leaf Chronicle)

White nationalist

SPLC definition: "White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites. Groups listed in a variety of other categories — Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, and Christian Identity — could also be fairly described as white nationalist."

Identity Evropa

The Political Cesspool (Bartlett)

Neo-Confederate

SPLC definition: "The term neo-Confederacy is used to describe twentieth and twenty-first century revivals of pro-Confederate sentiment in the United States. Strongly nativist, neo-Confederacy claims to pursue Christianity and heritage and other supposedly fundamental values that modern Americans are seen to have abandoned."

Identity Dixie

League of the South (Johnson City)

League of the South (Knoxville)

League of the South (Memphis)

League of the South (Nashville)

Mary Noel Kershaw Foundation (Lobelville)

Racist skinhead

SPLC definition: "Racist skinheads form a particularly violent element of the white supremacist movement, and have often been referred to as the 'shock troops' of the hoped-for revolution. The classic skinhead look is a shaved head, black Doc Martens boots, jeans with suspenders and an array of typically racist tattoos."

Christian Identity

SPLC definition: "Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and antisemitic. It asserts that whites, not Jews, are the true Israelites favored by God in the Bible. In most of its forms, Identity theology depicts Jews as biologically descended from Satan, while non-whites are seen as soulless 'mud people' created with the other Biblical 'beasts of the field.'"

Sacred Truth Publishing & Ministries (Mountain City)

Black Nationalist

SPLC definition: "Black nationalist groups are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. These groups typically oppose integration and racial intermarriage, and want separate institutions — or even a separate nation — for blacks. Most forms of black separatism are strongly anti-white and antisemitic."

Great Millstone (Memphis)

Israel United In Christ (Memphis)

Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge (Nashville)

Nation of Islam (Chattanooga)

Nation of Islam (Memphis)

New Black Panther Party (Nashville)

Anti-Muslim

SPLC definition: "Anti-Muslim hate groups are a relatively new phenomenon in the United States, with many appearing in the aftermath of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Beginning in 2010, anti-Muslim legislation increased and opposition to the development of an Islamic Center in lower Manhattan made headlines. Few of the anti-Muslim groups in operation before 2001 still exist, but those that do are key players in the movement today."

ACT for America (Knoxville)

ACT for America (Memphis)

Lincoln County Citizen Action Network (Fayetteville)

Political Islam (Nashville)

Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (Franklin)

Soldiers of Odin

Tennessee Eagle Forum (Nashville)

Neo-Volkisch

According to Heidi Beirich, director of SPLC's Intelligence Project, neo-Volkisch groups, a new category, are essentially "pagan fight clubs" influenced by Odinism and other ancient German beliefs. Many of groups' members call for the creation of a white state.